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A View at Salisbury from Archdeacon Fisher's House

Oil Painting
ca. 1829 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Archdeacon Fisher was the nephew of the Bishop of Salisbury. He was one of Constable's closest friends. Constable probably painted this view from a window of Fisher's house. It was a spacious building, in the south-west of the cathedral Close, with a garden running down to the river.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleA View at Salisbury from Archdeacon Fisher's House (popular title)
Materials and techniques
oil on canvas
Brief description
Oil sketch, 'A view at Salisbury from Archdeacon Fisher's house' by Constable.
Physical description
Landscape view from a garden with green trees and green grass.
Dimensions
  • Estimate height: 200mm
  • Estimate width: 251mm
  • Frame height: 448mm
  • Frame width: 499mm
  • Frame depth: 40mm
Dimensions taken from Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Lionel [Lionell Bicknell Constable] 1848 Jany' (A label on the stretcher)
  • 'borrowed by C. R. Leslie May 20th. 1841' (Inscribed in pencil on the stretcher)
Credit line
Given by Isabel Constable
Object history
Given by Isabel Constable, 1888
Historical context
'Constable was elected R.A. on 10 February 1829. He exhibited 'Hadleigh Castle' (now in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon; see No. 127 [D.234-1888] in this Catalogue) and a landscape of a "rich cottage". He paid his last two visits to Fisher at Salisbury, in July and in November. His preparations for English Landscape Scenery got under way in this year: the earliest letter on the subject to Lucas printed by Shirley (S.: L., p. 20) is dated 28 August 1829.'

[G Reynolds, 1973, p.190]
Place depicted
Summary
Archdeacon Fisher was the nephew of the Bishop of Salisbury. He was one of Constable's closest friends. Constable probably painted this view from a window of Fisher's house. It was a spacious building, in the south-west of the cathedral Close, with a garden running down to the river.
Bibliographic references
  • Parris, Leslie and Fleming-Williams, Ian. Constable London : The Tate Gallery, 1991 no.131
  • Catalogue of the Constable Collection, Graham Reynolds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1973, pp. 190, 193
  • Feaver, William, Lucian Freud on John Constable, London, British Council, 2003
Other number
320, plate 229 - Reynolds catalogue no.
Collection
Accession number
320-1888

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Record createdJuly 24, 2003
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